Miresua is an imaginary, artificial, constructed language; a conlang. These words are not randomly generated. Miresua is an eclectic alphabetic mix of Basque and Finnish, two unrelated European languages.

26 February 2008

kitsa = cat (animal) (noun) (some things Google found for "kitsa": an uncommon term; user names; a last name; a feminine first name that can be Greek; name of several cats (which was an odd result but a good sign for my word definition); KITSA is the Kangan Batman TAFE Student Association in Australia; gaming character name; places in Russia and Estonia)

My previous Miresua word for cat, kisu, wasn't a particularly good mix of the Basque and Finnish words, and beside it means "lime, gypsum, plaster" in Basque. I considered using "kita" but that word means "jaws" in Finnish, which made me laugh.

By the way, my word for "cat" in Lhaesine, my other conlang, is mehe. The Lhaesine word for cat seems close to meow, while the Miresua word seems close to kitten.

This Miresua conlang word was changed to katsi, then changed back to kitsa.

22 February 2008

kalu = street (noun) (some things Google found for "kalu": an uncommon term; KALU is the Nasdaq stock symbol for Kaiser Aluminum Corp.; Kalu Rinpoche (1905-1989) was a Tibetan Buddhist master and teacher; user names, a last name which can be Nigerian; name of places in Pakistan, North Korea, India, Iran, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, and Sudan)

18 February 2008

asoi = donkey (animal) (noun) (some things Google found for "asoi": an uncommon term; means "passionate, hot, wonderful, super" in Indonesian - which may be why this word shows up in connection with probably Indonesian web videos; places in Indonesia and Russia; user names; In Egypt ASOI stands for Arabic Society of Oral Implantology; to World Wildlife Fund ASOI stands for Antarctic & Southern Ocean Initiative; a last name that can be Japanese)

14 February 2008

rirgä = cart (noun) (some things Google found for "rirga": an uncommon to rare term; computer AMD CPU Rirga is often mentioned on forums along with overclocking or stepping; user name; name of a ship in a sci-fi story by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.)

10 February 2008

anuki = rabbit (animal) (noun) (some things Google found for "anuki": an uncommon term; Anuki is the title of an adventure manga and the name of its main characrater - a boy who becomes an ace war pilot; a feminine first name that can be from the Eurasian country of Georgia; user names; a language of Papua New Guinea; Anuki (also spelled Anouki) is the Egyptian goddess of life - a form of Isis)

06 February 2008

zylt = cold (adjective) (some things Google found for "zylt": an uncommon to rare term; Zylt Consulting.com and Zylt Consulting Ltd in the UK; Zylt is a Dutch partnership of consultants; user names; van Zylt is a last name)

02 February 2008

lünir = lead (metal) (some things Google found for "lunir": an uncommon to rare term; user names; a misspelling of lunar; a masculine character name; may be a first name; may mean something in Welsh and in Hungarian but I didn't not find them in my dictionaries; Lunir may be a name for the Strait of Messina which divides Calabria from Sicily)

My previous word for "lead" was "binür", which took all the consonants from the Basque word. I think my new word is a better alphabetic mixture of the Basque and Finnish words. The "ü" comes from my conlang rule that allows me to exchange the two "y"s in the Finnish word for one "ü". The "y" in Finnish is pronounced like "ü" in Miresua.

This Miresua conlang word has been revised to remove ü (u umlaut). The word for "lead" is now "lyrun".

About Me

Young enough to daydream, old enough to be somewhat realistic. I'm creating words in a made-up language. I'm not a linguist. Mariska is an old-fashioned Hungarian form of the name Mary. It's pronounced Marishka.

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About Miresua

Miresua is a scramble of Basque and Finnish, two languages that I don't actually speak but I find interesting. Words are intended to look foreign to English speakers.

There is nobody in this world that speaks Miresua as their native language. Miresua is a made-up, constructed language used in my fantasy writing.

The Basque and Finnish words shown are correct to the best of my knowledge.

When I say that a word equals something in English that is my definition only; it's not true in the real world. The miscellaneous information I list about the words is what Google search found on the Internet for that word.

The grammar of Miresua will take rules from Basque and Finnish. Miresua will be agglutinative language (as are Basque and Finnish), a regular language with a high rate of affixes per word. Miresua will be a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) language, which is like Basque, but unlike Finnish (and English). Although unlike Basque, but like Finnish, adjectives occur before the noun which they modify. Miresua, unlike Finnish, doesn't feature vowel harmony. (For my experiment with vowel harmony, see my Samgur artlang).

Finnish language

Finnish (native name: Suomi) is spoken in Finland. It is a minority language in the Northern European countries of Sweden, Norway, Russia, and Estonia. Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family (which also includes Hungarian). There are about 6 million total speakers of Finnish.

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Basque language

Basque (native name: Euskara) is spoken by in Basque Country, a region in the western Pyrenees mountains of Spain and France. Basque is a language with no demonstrable relationship with any other living language. There are about 1 million total speakers of Basque.